Is there a need for JRPG and WRPG?

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outlawauron said:

allblue said:

I agree with the soundtrack part but read my post above. I have yet to see one modern jrpg that has writing and voice acting as sophisticated as mass effect or dragon age. Unless jrpg break out of that anime/manga inspired mold with cheesy dialogues, generic plot and characters, they aren't going to make a come back in the west. They are merely surviving on their past glories now. 

I'm curious as to the term sophisicated. Moreso from Mass Effect (as I got bored with Dragon Age and never went back to it), because it's writing was terrible. The voice acting was fine, but that's a cause of it's expotentially higher budget than every JRPG not named Final Fantasy.

I guess this thread was going to eventually transform into a JRPG vs WRPG critique, might as well be now.

What was terrible about the writing in Mass Effect? The dialogue, characterisation and world building in the series are some of the most impressive examples in the industry.